Process of brushing a woven fabric with raising cards, teasels or wire brushes to raise a nap.
Not prepared or vigilant.
Синонимы
Examples for "off-guard "
Examples for "off-guard "
1 I couldn't say if he was disappointed or just caught completely off - guard .
2 One long-time resident, Susan Wright, said the blaze had caught everyone off - guard .
3 But it caught the scientific community tasked with informing policy makers off - guard .
4 It was the assembly of her senior year that threw her off - guard .
5 They smashed into the group, catching them off - guard with their unexpected speed.
1 The advantage always lies in catching the other fellow off his guard .
2 It put him right off his guard after he'd disposed of that.
3 The sudden change in his wife's manner threw him off his guard .
4 Thus thrown off his guard , he blindly dashed into the wrong channel.
5 For a fraction of a second he was caught off his guard .
1 Stephanie was off her guard for once, in no truly fencing mood.
2 The strangeness and surprise took Mary off her guard , and she faltered:
3 She was off her guard , and she spoke it aloud to Durrance.
4 She was angry enough, at that moment, to be off her guard .
5 Cornelia flushed and trembled; the traitorous feint had thrown her off her guard .
1 Once before when you played that overture you were off your guard .
2 You were so happy, that perhaps you were thrown off your guard .
3 That was a blind, monsieur, meant to throw you off your guard .
4 And a thing like that takes you off your guard .
5 You showed the truth plainly when off your guard .
1 But once in a while even the smartest people are caught napping .
2 In football the unexpected counts most, and Harmony was certainly caught napping .
3 He had earned it while napping , although he did not understand how.
4 Must give up important ball chasing, important napping , important sniffing-allto write.
5 Sound it did, in short time, but it caught no one napping .
6 Aye, Newman was a wise lad; he would not be caught napping .
7 If we're caught napping , Stinker will come out on top pretty quick.
8 If the lookout was caught napping , the whole watch was kept awake.
9 In seconds he was sound asleep- a light - switch napping ability I thoroughly envied.
10 I was taking a chance by napping , but I was very tired.
11 Drogba is caught napping , panics, goes to ground and brings him down.
12 For once Brookes was caught napping , expecting a drive down the line.
13 His breathing grew deep and regular, and she thought he was napping .
14 Labour caught us napping and struck at our weakest place, the stomach.
15 Even have I found Louis, the steward, and Wada guilty of cat - napping .
16 I leapt over a bench, surprising a patient who had been napping .
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